When you decide to delegate your Steem Power to @utopian-io you will be part of the Utopian Sponsors and rewarded.

The way it was working before required a huge change, since many smaller sponsors were waiting in line for weeks without seeing a cent.

The New Sponsorship Module is HERE!

• Now get Liquid Steem every week, based on how much you have delegated.
• Never wait in line to get your rewards any longer.

Becoming an Utopian Sponsor

You can become an Utopian Sponsor by delegating your Steem Power to Utopian using the “DELEGATE” button on the Utopian Sponsors page.

Sponsors share 20% of all the author rewards generated on Utopian, based on the amount of the delegation. The more you delegate the more you will profit from the 20% shared between all the sponsors.

Benefits of Delegating VS Curating

We encourage everyone to keep curating, since curation is fundamental for this platform, but you may want to delegate your voting power to Utopian and have a passive income.

• No need for curation. Just delegate and earn your rewards every week.
• You receive Liquid Steem not Steem Power.
• Gain visibility by being credited on every Utopian post and marketing activity.
• Help the growth of the Open Source ecosystem and the growth of the Steem ecosystem.

Old Utopian Sponsorship Module VS New

Old

The old Utopian sponsorship module was adding sponsors to the beneficiaries of each single post. By doing this, smaller delegators had to wait in line before being added (max 8 beneficiaries per post are possible). On top of that is impossible to predict how much a single contribution may gain.

New

The new sponsorship module set only one account as beneficiary of all the posts at a fixed 25%. This account is managed by Utopian. Every time this account receives a benefactor reward, the reward is summed with all the other rewards of the week and then split:

• 20% to the Sponsors based on how much they have delegated
• 5% to the moderators based on how many contributions they have reviewed.

The new system sends Liquid Steem instead of Steem Power.

Transition From Old To New

It will take a week for all the posts using the old sponsorship module to be cashed out. Once all those posts have been cashed out, Utopian will manually send to all the sponsors and moderators the pending amounts. From that time on the new sponsorship module will be running and Sponsors and Moderators paid automatically for all the new rewards.

The section Utopian Sponsor will be then updated accordingly.

IMPORTANT TO KNOW

To avoid gaming the system:

• If you un-delegate before a week has been paid, you will not receive rewards for that week. Un-delegation immediately removes you from the beneficiaries.

BECOME A SPONSOR!

Good News For Moderators And Supervisors

Moderators will now earn their rewards immediately. Supervisors will also get an additional percentage, 20% of the shares owned by the supervised moderators will be given to them. This percentage won’t be removed by the Moderators, but paid on top by Utopian.

Utopian Community-Driven Witness

We are made of developers, system administrators, entrepreneurs, artists, content creators, thinkers. We embrace every nationality, mindset and belief.

Utopian.io is the first Community-Driven Witness. Every decision will be taken as per the consensus of the entire community using our public Discord server and soon via a public voting system.

• Go here Steem Witnesses
• Scroll to the bottom
• Write utopian-io and vote or set utopian-io as a proxy
• Use Steem Connect for Voting Utopian as a Witness
• Or Use Steem Connect for proxying your vote to Utopian Witness

A Special Thanks to The Sponsors

A Special Thanks to The Moderators

@espoem @ruah @knowledges @arie.steem @damla @simnrodrguez @jefpatat @flauwy @mcfarhat @shreyasgune @vladimir-simovic @favcau @omeratagun @drigweeu @scipio @deveerei @thegoldenphoenix @orcheva @cnts @howo @reggaemuffin @emrebeyler @rosatravels @mkt @ejemai @mooncryption @gktown @codingdefined @stoodkev @yandot @fabiyamada @justyy @abh12345 @isfar @manishmike10

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In Utopian.io we have been running a public poll to make the decisional process democratic. The public poll is on Discord.

Changes to the rules and to the platform were discussed and soon implemented during the Utopian Poll 12/09/2017.

Results Of The Utopian Poll

• Should we integrate other platforms other than github in the short term? Vote yes only if you believe this functionality is a must have in the short term. [RESULT: NO]
• We should accept valid, non-official GitHub repos such as inkscape/inkscape? [RESULT: YES]
• We should accept always OFFICIAL repositories even if they are just mirrors. [RESULT: YES]
• Should we only allow contributions on repositories that have not been inactive for more than 1 year? [RESULT: YES]
• Un-official contributions on repos will be rejected unless present in a publicly readable “non-official GitHub repos” whitelist. [RESULT: YES]
• We will provide a specific rule for every category where it is necessary to be informative and narrative. [RESULT: YES]
• Should we reject a contribution if it has been shared somewhere else before by the same author, but not yet in Utopian? [RESULT: YES]
• Should we allow same translations from different authors, if we can clearly evaluate that the latest translation is an enhancement of the previous one and not just copy and paste? [RESULT: YES]
• Should we allow only translations made on CrowdIn or Github and stop translations directly made on the Utopian post? [RESULT: YES]
• We will change the rule for the translations category, so to actually evaluate the work based on the number of WORDS [RESULT: YES]
• We won’t accept proof-reading as valid translation contribution. [RESULT: NO]
• Moderators may ask contributors to enhance the format of the post and to use a more professional and formal writing style. [RESULT: YES]
• Should we give moderators a quality voting slider (0-10) functioning as quality metric for the bot? [RESULT: YES]
• The moderator may require to show an animated GIF or video if the bug is not easy to reproduce for contributions in the category bug-hunting. [RESULT: YES]
• Should we only allow graphic contributions if the project owner is requesting for a specific design? [RESULT: YES]
• Analysis Category: You should include example scripts which generated the results for your analyses, if applicable, or any informartion on how the data was generated [RESULT: YES] Analysis Category: Script-generated analyses should be entered in a separate category and given much less reserved voting power from the Utopian Bot. [RESULT: YES]
• Graphic Category: If you are providing a logo, you should also provide the different logo variations in terms of sizes and colors and also compare the new logo with the previous one, if applicable. [RESULT: YES]
• Video Tutorials: Should video tutorials also have a transcript? [RESULT: NO]
• Video Tutorials: The video and audio recording should be in HD (480 the min) [RESULT: YES]
• Moderators could reject a tutorial or video tutorial if the work involved seems not enough to be rewarded. [RESULT: YES]
• Copywriting. We should state what is meant for copywriting work in details. [RESULT: YES]
• Copywriting. Remove the rule that the copywriting work can only be accepted if in a merged Github Pull Request. [RESULT: YES]
• BLOG We will only accept high quality contents. The mission is to become the Medium.com for Open Source in the long run. [RESULT: YES]
• Utopian should allow project owners to stop contributions for a specific task request, suggestions, bug hunting, etc. [RESULT: YES]
• Supervisors should get a percentage of the total moderated contributions of their team in order to be rewarded for their work while also being focused on managing the team and increase the quality. [RESULT: YES]
• Moderators should have an higher percentage of rewards, by either decreasing the percentage given to the sponsors or by splitting a portion of the curation rewards earned by Utopian. Please give a comment with your proposal and how this percentage should look like. . [RESULT: YES]
• Provide a posting limit (either in terms of # per day, or # per week) to prevent spam or reward hogging from getting out of control. [RESULT: YES]
• A moderator should ALWAYS gives at least one opportunity to fix/edit a post, and NEVER rejects and hide it on the first sight, unless it is too obvious. [RESULT: YES]

Utopian Community-Driven Witness

We are made of developers, system administrators, entrepreneurs, artists, content creators, thinkers. We embrace every nationality, mindset and belief.

Utopian.io is the first Community-Driven Witness. Every decision will be taken as per the consensus of the entire community using our public Discord server and soon via a public voting system.

• Go here Steem Witnesses
• Scroll to the bottom
• Write utopian-io and vote or set utopian-io as a proxy
• Use Steem Connect for Voting Utopian as a Witness
• Or Use Steem Connect for proxying your vote to Utopian Witness

A Special Thanks to The Sponsors

A Special Thanks to The Moderators

@espoem @ruah @knowledges @arie.steem @damla @simnrodrguez @jefpatat @flauwy @mcfarhat @shreyasgune @vladimir-simovic @favcau @omeratagun @drigweeu @scipio @deveerei @thegoldenphoenix @orcheva @cnts @howo @reggaemuffin @emrebeyler @rosatravels @mkt @ejemai @mooncryption @gktown @codingdefined @stoodkev @yandot @fabiyamada @justyy @abh12345 @isfar @manishmike10

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In Utopian.io we are trying to make the decisional process public and democratic. We have just opened a poll for proposals/questions regarding changes to the Utopian Rules and changes to the platform.

You can participate.

Utopian Public Poll On Discord

To make the decisional process public and democratic in the short term, we are using Discord. Soon we will implement a public voting system.

JOIN THE POLL ON DISCORD

HOW TO PARTICIPATE ON DISCORD

UTOPIAN POLL:

• Each poll will be opened and announced with the following format: # UTOPIAN POLL mm/dd/yyyy
• This channel will be read-only until all the questions of the poll will be proposed by the Utopian @Overseers.
• The proposed questions/changes are the result of discussions we do publicly every 2 weeks in the voice channel BIWEEKLY.
• Each question/proposal of the poll will have the following format: ## Q-XXXXX and a message, where XXXXX will be replaced by a unique/random ID.

  UTOPIAN POLL HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

  Once this channel will be writable for everyone, the poll is opened. The poll starts with following format: # UTOPIAN POLL mm/dd/yyyy STARTS @everyone.
• Read through all the given proposals/questions and either upvote/downvote the proposal. You can only use the reactions 👍 or 👎. Any other reaction will be considered as 👍 and it is highly discouraged.
• If you wish to add a comment for a change/enhancement for one of the proposals/questions given by the @Overseers, you can do it by adding your proposal in plain English just after the question ID. E.g. If you want to propose a change/additional detail, you will write a chat message that will look like this: “Q-XXXXX This is my custom message and this is the change/enhancement I am proposing.”
• You can and should also upvote/downvote changes/enhancements proposed in the chat by any other user. If a proposal made by a user earns enough upvotes (Read the rules below) it will be actually implemented or planned.

UTOPIAN POLL RULES:

• You can only upvote/downvote a proposed question one time and only one time. Any other additional vote or reaction will not be considered.
• You can write a comment to edit/enhance a single proposal only one time and only in one single message for each Q-XXXXX. Any other message won’t be considered and most likely deleted from the chat.
• If you propose a change you must collect at least 15 upvotes in order for your suggestion to be implemented, and in any case the number of upvotes must be at least 51% of the total upvotes/downvotes you got for the proposal.
• You can’t refer to any other suggestion made by any other user in the chat. You must always provide the full picture and how YOU intend to change/enhance one of the proposals made by the @Overseers.
• When you propose a change/enhancements you must always refer to one of the given proposals/questions by the @Overseers. If you wish to give ideas regarding any other topic, use Utopian.io and will be considered/discussed in one of the next BIWEEKLY conferences.

UTOPIAN POLL DEADLINE

12/11/2017 4:30 PM CET.

JOIN THE POLL ON DISCORD

Utopian Community-Driven Witness

We are made of developers, system administrators, entrepreneurs, artists, content creators, thinkers. We embrace every nationality, mindset and belief.

Utopian.io is the first Community-Driven Witness. Every decision will be taken as per the consensus of the entire community using our public Discord server and soon via a public voting system.

• Go here Steem Witnesses
• Scroll to the bottom
• Write utopian-io and vote or set utopian-io as a proxy
• Use Steem Connect for Voting Utopian as a Witness
• Or Use Steem Connect for proxying your vote to Utopian Witness

A Special Thanks to The Sponsors

A Special Thanks to The Moderators

@espoem @jefpatat @arie.steem @ruah @stoodkev @favcau @simnrodrguez @deveerei @mcfarhat @mooncryption @cnts @shreyasgune @knowledges @lykkejay @flauwy @gktown @vladimir-simovic @orcheva @damla @monomyth @emrebeyler @mkt @scipio @ejemai @reggaemuffin @yandot

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We got various complaints regarding the 50/50 split of the rewards for the Utopian posts, this one in particular and we believe it is time to make some clarifications.

50/50 Split SBD / SP

We had a bug and we thought we had it fixed two times while actually was not like that. Now it is fixed for real. In percent_steem_dollars we were adding 5000, but then realised it should be 10000, even though this does not make much sense in our opinion. This is why you were receiving more SP than SBD. Now the bug is over since 3 days and new posts using the option 50/50 should work as expected.

Beneficiary System For Authors

When you post in Utopian.io a minimum of 15% to a maximum of 25% of your author rewards is given back to the sponsors and to the moderators, since it is thanks to the sponsors that you can get high votes and it is thanks to moderators if the quality of our platform is increasing.

The 15-25% will be taken from the 75% of your author rewards, while the remaining 25% is taken by Steem for the curation rewards. So your earnings are 75% of the total amount your post got, minus 15-25% given back to the Utopian Sponsors and Moderators.

Beneficiary System For Sponsors

When you become an Utopian Sponsor you will be added as beneficiary in the posts created on utopian. 20% of the author rewards are dedicated to the sponsors based on how much they delegate.

As a sponsor the more you delegate the sooner you will be included in the beneficiaries and rewarded. This is because Steem only accepts max 8 beneficiaries per post.

This also means if you un-delegate before being included as a beneficiary of any post, you may end up not getting anything. There is a queue managed by Utopian and you can see how much you are supposed to get under Should Receive More in the Utopian.io Sponsors Page.

The Should Receive More tells you how much you have already accumulated and DOES NOT include the pending rewards not yet cashed out. So actually you will get more than what you see in Should Receive More. It is a deferred system. With this system the only thing you have to do to get your rewards is to show commitment and not un-delegate until you get what you are supposed to get.

Why Utopian Is Being Now Included As a Beneficiary?

@Ned is still a sponsor but has rejected his rewards. So he does not get a cent from delegating to Utopian. As a sponsor when you decline your rewards, the rewards you should have got will be given to the main @utopian-io account and used to delegate to other projects or to reward the contributions with the Utopian Bot.

Utopian Community-Driven Witness

We are made of developers, system administrators, entrepreneurs, artists, content creators, thinkers. We embrace every nationality, mindset and belief.

Utopian.io is the first Community-Driven Witness. Every decision will be taken as per the consensus of the entire community using our public Discord server and soon via a public voting system.

• Go here Steem Witnesses
• Scroll to the bottom
• Write utopian-io and vote or set utopian-io as a proxy
• Use Steem Connect for Voting Utopian as a Witness
• Or Use Steem Connect for proxying your vote to Utopian Witness

A Special Thanks to The Sponsors

A Special Thanks to The Moderators

@espoem @jefpatat @arie.steem @ruah @stoodkev @favcau @simnrodrguez @deveerei @mcfarhat @mooncryption @cnts @shreyasgune @knowledges @lykkejay @flauwy @gktown @vladimir-simovic @orcheva @damla @monomyth @emrebeyler @mkt @scipio @ejemai @reggaemuffin @yandot

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Here in Utopian.io the work of the moderators is not easy stuff. We are very focused on evaluating the work required and not judging the result as per our tastes. Sometimes we end up accepting also contributions we don’t like but where we recognise effort.

Some other times it is REALLY easy to accept a contribution. What I am going to show you now is a video animation COMPLETELY SPONTANEOUS that we believe should serve as a masterpiece for what we mean for QUALITY AND SPONTANEOUS CONTRIBUTIONS.

WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW!

A Video Animation By @oendertuerk

We did not request for this contribution. It just came spontaneously from @oendertuerk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tmrgbP-JWc

If You Have A Spare Vote DO NOT Use It To Upvote This Post. Follow The Link Below And Upvote @oendertuerk

https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@oendertuerk/energized-utopian-io-logo-intro

Utopian Community-Driven Witness

We are made of developers, system administrators, entrepreneurs, artists, content creators, thinkers. We embrace every nationality, mindset and belief.

Utopian.io is the first Community-Driven Witness. Every decision will be taken as per the consensus of the entire community using our public Discord server and soon via a public voting system.

• Go here Steem Witnesses
• Scroll to the bottom
• Write utopian-io and vote or set utopian-io as a proxy
• Use Steem Connect for Voting Utopian as a Witness
• Or Use Steem Connect for proxying your vote to Utopian Witness

A Special Thanks to The Sponsors

A Special Thanks to The Moderators

@espoem @jefpatat @arie.steem @ruah @stoodkev @favcau @simnrodrguez @deveerei @mcfarhat @mooncryption @cnts @shreyasgune @knowledges @lykkejay @flauwy @gktown @vladimir-simovic @orcheva @damla @monomyth @emrebeyler @mkt @scipio @ejemai @reggaemuffin

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Sorry for the delay but in Utopian.io we are receiving a contribution every 10 mins in average and while this is super cool is also hard work and we got some delay in announcing the winners of the Utopian GIFs Contest.

The Winners

1. Star Wars by @aleister

2. Utopian superhero by @orelmely

3. Utopian WhaT? by @onyfest

Only 3 Winners, But These Two Are Also VERY Nice

• https://utopian.io/utopian-io/@aleister/utopian-io-gif-contest-minimalist-utopian-gif
• https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@mooncryption/utopian-io-gif-contest

The Utopian Giphy Channel

https://giphy.com/channel/utopian_io

A special THANKS to @stellabelle for donating 100 STEEM for this contest and for running the Utopian Giphy channel

Thanks everyone for participating and stay tuned for the next contest!

A Special Thanks to The Sponsors

A Special Thanks to The Moderators

@espoem @jefpatat @arie.steem @ruah @stoodkev @favcau @simnrodrguez @deveerei @mcfarhat @mooncryption @cnts @shreyasgune @knowledges @lykkejay @flauwy @gktown @vladimir-simovic @orcheva @damla @monomyth @emrebeyler @mkt @scipio @ejemai

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